A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the first of its
kind to engage with this important figure. Twenty-eight essays by
an international group of scholars consider this controversial
director’s contribution to German cinema, German history, gender
studies, and auteurship.
* A fresh collection of original research providing diverse
perspectives on Fassbinder’s work in films, television,
poetry, and underground theatre.
* Rainer Werner Fassbinder remains the preeminent filmmaker of
the New German Cinema whose brief but prolific body of work spans
from the latter half of the 1960s to the artist’s death in
1982.
* Interrogates Fassbinder’s influence on the seminal ideas
of his time: auteurship, identity, race, queer studies, and the
cataclysmic events of German twentieth century history
* Contributions from internationally diverse scholars
specializing in film, culture, and German studies.
* Includes coverage of his key films including: Gods of the
Plague (1970), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), The
Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Martha (1973)
(TV), World on a Wire (1973), Effi Briest (1974),
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Fox and His Friends
(1975), Fear of Fear (1975), Chinese Roulette
(1976), In a Year With 13 Moons (1978), Despair
(1978), The Third Generation (1979), Berlin
Alexanderplatz (1980) (TV), and Querelle (1982).
Tabella dei contenuti
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1
Brigitte Peucker
Part I Life and Work 15
1 The Other Planet Fassbinder 17
Juliane Lorenz
2 R. W. Fassbinder: Prodigal Son, Not Reconciled? 45
Thomas Elsaesser
3 Rainer ‘Maria’ Fassbinder: Cinema between Literature and Life
53
Leo A. Lensing
4 Five Fassbinder Scenes 67
Wayne Koestenbaum
Part II Genre; Influence; Aesthetics 77
5 Imitation, Seriality, Cinema: Early Fassbinder and Godard
79
Laura Mc Mahon
6 Exposed Bodies; Evacuated Identities 101
Claire Kaiser
7 Redressing the Inaccessible through the Re-Inscribed
Body: In a Year with 13 Moons and Almodóvar’s
Bad Education 118
Victor Fan
8 Nudity and the Question: Chinese Roulette 142
Eugenie Brinkema
9 Color, Melodrama, and the Problem of Interiority 159
Brian Price
10 Fassbinder’s Work : Style, Sirk, and Queer Labor
181
John David Rhodes
11 A Nagging Physical Discomfort: Fassbinder and Martha
204
Joe Mc Elhaney
12 Beyond the Woman’s Film: Reflecting Difference in the
Fassbinder Melodrama 226
Nadine Schwakopf
13 Through the Looking Glass: Fassbinder’s World on a
Wire 245
Brad Prager
Part III Other Texts; Other Media 267
14 Violently Oscillating: Science, Repetition, and Affective
Transmutation in Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz
269
Elena del Rio
15 In Despair : Performance, Citation, Identity 290
Brigitte Peucker
16 Declined Invitations: Repetition in Fassbinder’s Queer
‘Monomusical’ 313
Caryl Flinn
17 Fassbinder’s France: Genet’s Miseen Scène in
Fassbinder’s Films 333
Olga Solovieva
18 Un-framing the Image: Theatricality and the Art World of
Bitter Tears 352
Brigitte Peucker
19 A Novel Film: Fassbinder’s Fontane Effi Briest
372
Elke Siegel
20 Swearing and Forswearing Fidelity in Fassbinder’s Berlin
Alexanderplatz 398
Paul Coates
Part IV History; Ideology; Politics 421
21 ‘There Are Many Ways to Fight a Battle’: Young Fassbinder and
the Myths of 1968 423
Eric Rentschler
22 A Generation Later and Still Unrepresentable?: Fassbinder and
the Red Army Faction 441
Frances Guerin
23 Two Kinds of Excess: Fassbinder and Veit Harlan 461
Laura J. Heins
24 Jolie Laide: Fassbinder, Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish
Image 485
Rosalind Galt
25 Impossible, Impolitic: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and
Fassbinder’s Asynchronous Bodies 502
Elena Gorfinkel
26 ‘So Much Tenderness’: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther
Kaufmann, and the Ambivalences of Interracial Desire 516
Tobias Nagl and Janelle Blankenship
27 Rainer, Rosa, and Werner: New Gay Film as Counter-Public
542
Randall Halle
28 Fassbinder’s Fox and His Friends and Gay Politics in
the 1970s 564
Ronald Gregg
29 Querelle’s Finality 579
Roy Grundmann
Selected Bibliography 604
Index 623
Circa l’autore
Brigitte Peucker is the Elias Leavenworth Professor of German and a Professor of Film Studies at Yale University. She is the author of many essays on questions of representation in film and literature. Earlier books include Lyric Descent in the German Romantic Tradition (1987), Incorporating Images: Film and the Rival Arts (1995), and The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film (2007).
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